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chrisinhouston · 12-10-2006, 02:37 PM

The only thing positive I'll say for R. Ray is that she has made a success of herself. I belive it was only 5-6 years ago that she was demonstrating cooking gadgets at Macy's in NY. Now she is a millionairess or close.

I have been a viewer of the Food Network for some time, I'm home in the late afternoon and ususally do the cooking for dinner. I get tired of the news as I listen to NPR and BBC during the day and check the Internet and I find cooking entertaining. That being said, I am getting really bored with their current trend towards home chefs with little proffesional training and their survivor type shows.

In the early days, I enjoyed Two Fat Ladies, Ready Steady Cook and Doorknock Dinners. I liked Sara Moulton, the chocolate/desert chef with the french accent and the other dessert chef-Sween treats. I could put up with Emeril, Mario and Bobby as pro chefs but preferred Ming Tsai and Tyler Florence as they are less showy and pretentous. Jamie Oliver was nuts but at least fun to watch.

My number one favorite was the old Iron Chef, so well done, campy and funny as well as entertaining. I especially liked the old chef who would always take the time to write out his menu before cooking as the opponents ran around the kitchen trying to get ahead of him. The dubbing voices were as good as Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily?" I remember one show where the secret ingredient was ocotpus and the competitor insisted on beating the dead thing with a melon because that is what they did in his prefecture, so typically Japanese.

The only one worse then Rachel Ray is Sandra Lee, a dingy blond who dresses up in the wierdest costumes and then prepares the meal in them. I crack up over her term "table scapes" and her closing "keep it simple, keep it fun and always keep it semi-homemade". I read where she was the replacement for Martha Stewart, old Martha must be chocking on that one!

Giada De Laurentiis is pretty to look at and her show is well filmed but I think she uses Botox in her lips and her teeth look fake. And you know she can't be eating all that Italian food because she would weigh 400 lbs! Ina Garten's husband is one spolied puppy; he comes home every night to a big fancy meal. I rate Alton Brown's shows highly as they are informative and amusing, he really gets into the satire which is entertaining.

That's the way I see it and I agree that maybe R. R. will move on to something else!

12-10-2006, 02:37 PM	#3
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	The only thing positive I'll say for R. Ray is that she has made a success of herself. I belive it was only 5-6 years ago that she was demonstrating cooking gadgets at Macy's in NY. Now she is a millionairess or close. I have been a viewer of the Food Network for some time, I'm home in the late afternoon and ususally do the cooking for dinner. I get tired of the news as I listen to NPR and BBC during the day and check the Internet and I find cooking entertaining. That being said, I am getting really bored with their current trend towards home chefs with little proffesional training and their survivor type shows. In the early days, I enjoyed Two Fat Ladies, Ready Steady Cook and Doorknock Dinners. I liked Sara Moulton, the chocolate/desert chef with the french accent and the other dessert chef-Sween treats. I could put up with Emeril, Mario and Bobby as pro chefs but preferred Ming Tsai and Tyler Florence as they are less showy and pretentous. Jamie Oliver was nuts but at least fun to watch. My number one favorite was the old Iron Chef, so well done, campy and funny as well as entertaining. I especially liked the old chef who would always take the time to write out his menu before cooking as the opponents ran around the kitchen trying to get ahead of him. The dubbing voices were as good as Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily?" I remember one show where the secret ingredient was ocotpus and the competitor insisted on beating the dead thing with a melon because that is what they did in his prefecture, so typically Japanese. The only one worse then Rachel Ray is Sandra Lee, a dingy blond who dresses up in the wierdest costumes and then prepares the meal in them. I crack up over her term "table scapes" and her closing "keep it simple, keep it fun and always keep it semi-homemade". I read where she was the replacement for Martha Stewart, old Martha must be chocking on that one! Giada De Laurentiis is pretty to look at and her show is well filmed but I think she uses Botox in her lips and her teeth look fake. And you know she can't be eating all that Italian food because she would weigh 400 lbs! Ina Garten's husband is one spolied puppy; he comes home every night to a big fancy meal. I rate Alton Brown's shows highly as they are informative and amusing, he really gets into the satire which is entertaining. That's the way I see it and I agree that maybe R. R. will move on to something else!